On Thursday, May 28, 2020, Osman Mustafapour, a Kurdish political prisoner, who was imprisoned for 28 years by the Iranian Islamic regime, returned to his friends and fellow party members. He was welcomed by a high-ranking delegation of the Democratic […]
On December 17, 1945, the military forces of PDKI overtook the last Iranian military barrack in Mahabad and raised the Kurdish national flag. The Peshmerga Forces of Kurdistan was established on the same day. The word “Peshmerga”, which in Kurdish […]
Today marks the 27th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Sadegh Sharafkandi, former leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, Fatah Abdoli and Homayoun Ardalan – the party’s representatives in Europe and Germany, respectively – and Nouri Dehkordi, a […]
The PDKI’s Foreign Relations Office sends an open letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Sweden and Norway in order to highlight some of the human rights violations carried out by the Islamic Republic of Iran against the […]
Today marks the 74rd anniversary of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan. The 74rd anniversary of PDKI was celebrated at one of the party’s bases in Kurdistan. The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) was founded in the city of […]
UNPO, together with its partners at the University of Oxford and Tibet Justice Center, has launched the report: ‘Compromised Space: Bullying and Blocking at the UN Human Rights Mechanisms’. The report documents how China, Russia, Iran and other repressive regimes […]
The 13th of July marks the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. A. R. Ghassemlou, one of the prominent leaders of the Kurdish nation and former General-Secretary of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), along with his aide […]
On Tuesday the 9th of July 2019, the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), together with the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), organised a series of events to address the continuing human rights violations against Kurds by the Islamic […]
On the evening of the 9th of July 2019, a ceremony was organized by PDKI in Brussels to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. A. R. Ghassemlou, one of the prominent Kurdish leaders and former General-Secretary of […]
Selkirk, MB – James Bezan, Shadow Minister for National Defence, issued the following statement today on the 30th anniversary of the political assassination of Kurdish leader Dr. Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou by Iranian state actors: “As Kurdish people in Canada and […]
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